Live in a Long Term Care Facility...
Get to know the System.
Your eyes, ears and voice
Are critical to an "industry"
Dependent on "turnover"
Needing Funding
How long did it take
To find your "home"?
A new or used car?
A Doctor to deliver a child?
Wait until the last moment
when need is "now"
you settle for what you can
regretting not planning.
We shop for many things in life.
Almost all of us do not shop
for something we do not want.
How many college visits
did you make with your kids?
How many people did you date
before deciding this was "the one"?
Belong to an organization, a club.
making a choice where to eat or meet?
Most people put more
into those choices
than in "a place to live"
when it means
more assistance,
medical care or supervision.
You need to visit more than once.
At different times.
Walk the facility, all areas,
check out the on line information
including Annual Reports.
Seek and find.
Others who are where you're going.
Keep watch as the years pass
Walk around, visit,
Just Don't Get Pulled In,
To pay a few thousand
Join others on events, trips
Vulnerability can cause poor decisions
The leaders of these programs
Know who to sell and how to sell
When they see possibility
They turn on the "charm"
And start the "qualifying process
Leading to engaging, then joining.
A free lunch or dinner may be nice
It's a way to "catch you off guard"
Believing it's "just a social time
Predators among humans wait, listen
Move in when they see opportunity
Listen for possibility to "close".
Finding ways to "gain confidence"
Inviting, never pushing, always cordial.
Until they feel you're "hooked"
Like any other "fishing"
These people know what triggers
Positive reaction and response.
Friend? Or foe?
Maybe neither.
Your few thousand to "hold a space"
May cause you to 'take the bait".
They'll do what you should
Invest it and gain interest.
Old adage:
"If it's free, is it really worth the price?"
